Biomimetic child will never leave you

“It’s not human — but it is paying attention.”

Japan child robot mimicks infant learning [Physorg]

1. [huntsu]

   It won’t leave you until it nukes Caprica. Then it’ll try to hunt you down and kill you.

2. [scaught]

   I was just thinking to my self in reflection about the creepiness of that image:

   “Fuck that thing, I just won’t come back to BBG for a day or so and let it fall down the page and won’t have to look at it”

   and clicked over to Gizmodo and what do I see right at the friggin top? AAAAGHHHHH!!!!

3. [GeekMan]

   Guh. Creepy.

4. [RedShirt77]

   Isn’t this the face of chucky from the last movie after they burned his features off?

5. [Halloween Jack]

   Has Japan gotten to the point where they’re making their robots creepy on purpose?

6. [DSMVWL THS]

   Head Six and Head Baltar are standing nearby, invisibly chuckling at this.

7. [mwilliamrice]

   Japan: building a better pervert since 2009!

   They had to make it a mouth breather?

8. [Anonymous]

   This pic is creepy. Soon it will learn how to form social groups with other robots, pick up weapons, and enslave humans.

9. [Doomstalk]

   Uncanny valley meets Japanese horror.

10. [Agies]

    Unicron Chaser please!

11. [RedShirt77]

    It’s like a robot zombie.

12. [Lab Monkey]

    I’d resent my human makers too if they crafted me to look like this.

13. [scaught]

    AGGhhhh. I’m seriously creeped out by that image.

14. [Jazzhigh]

    If the image creeps you out, just imagine what it would be like to have that thing think you’re it’s mommy. The high pitched whine of servo motors, creating a voice that calls out for you when you try to leave the room: “Mooommmmmy!”. The horror of the teen years and the inevitable disappointment when it realizes you are “only human”. This could end very badly.

15. [HeatherB]

    I know what will be haunting my dreams tonight.

16. [strider_mt2k]

    Indeed.
    No human could reach that particular level of super-runaway creepiness.

    -now if you’ll excuse me…

    SUPER RUNAWAY!!!!

17. [bardfinn]

    Biomimetic child will never forfeit you
    Biomimetic child will never allow you to be disappointed
    Biomimetic child will never betray your trust
    Biomimetic child will never leave you

    You and Biomimetic child have been in proximity for a definite period of time
    You are experiencing myocardial distress but you lack sufficient social skill to enunciate your experience
    You and Biomimetic child both have internalised databases of current events
    You and Biomimetic child have internalised models of an unspecified process and both shall engage said process
    In the event that you query Biomimetic child’s current process state
    do not specify that you are incapable of receiving the output of the state query function